ThinkGeo Releases First Public Beta of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0

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Posted 20 November 2008 - 02:02 AM

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Greetings all,

We at ThinkGeo have just released the initial public beta of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0, the next major version of our native .NET control that lets you build GIS functionality into your Windows desktop applications. If you're developing in .NET, we've got a 60-day free trial of the new version that you can grab from our website.

We've had a lot of customer demand to add a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) control, so we're pleased to announce that Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 now includes both WPF and Winforms map controls. It also has a newly-designed, rich API that allows you to build all manner of GIS applications. At its heart are the new Map Suite 3.0 core classes; these include all of our styles, data providers, and geometric operations. Here are some of the features in this beta:

We left some things out of the first beta so we could get it into the hands of developers as soon as possible. Here's what we still need to add over the next few weeks:

Continuous Panning

Drawing Track Shapes

Multi-threaded UI

Local Tiling & Caching

Auto Refresh of Dynamic Layers

Visual Shape Editing

Click & Query

Zooming Transition Effects

VB.NET Sample Applications

If anybody is interested in giving the beta a try, let us know what you think. This is your opportunity to provide input and drive the direction and new features in the Desktop Edition. Feel free to drop by our forums if you have any questions or need some help; there are always some of our developers monitoring them so they can help you out.